Actually, the solution is to limit population growth via immigration. No offense to immigrants, my partner is one and I'm about to become one in another country, but our prosperity and increasing population (over 300 million this year) will be our undoing. We don't have the resources for this growth, unless we pave over the rest of the parks, forests, etc., and build cheap housing.
That said, those who are here need somewhere to live they can call their own. HOAs belong in condo complexes, not SFH neighborhoods. I live in California and if I'm going to pay $500,000 for a tract house, I bloody well will do as I please with it and expect my neighbors a) to be OK with that; and b) do the same, whatever the impact on my property values. Fair is fair.
This is absolutely correct. For some reason the iPod became trendy while it took Creative and other companies a while to catch up. For a while their prices were a fraction of the iPod for the same or more capacity. It wasn't until the American market woke up and noticed that the other products were the same thing that the prices of the others floated upward. All of them are made pretty much in the same way and by the same people (OK, in different factories manned by different people, but all by cheap overseas labor), which keeps the costs about the same.
It's about the weird need to carry our music around everywhere and avoid human contact, not cheap overseas labor. That's why the profit margins are so high.
While I can acknowledge that it very well could be accidental, this Administration has a history of deviancy and obfuscation. They may well have "accidentally" left off HVAC and other non-controversial topics to mask their intention of eliminating evolutionary biology. It would not be an original ploy by any means and certainly not beyond the intelligence of the current Administration.
I think we in IT are still rare enough not to have to roll over when companies pull this kind of thing. If a company doesn't want to strike the clause, don't work for them; if enough of us do this, the clause won't be so popular. All they'll get are second-rate consultants.
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Actually, the solution is to limit population growth via immigration. No offense to immigrants, my partner is one and I'm about to become one in another country, but our prosperity and increasing population (over 300 million this year) will be our undoing. We don't have the resources for this growth, unless we pave over the rest of the parks, forests, etc., and build cheap housing. That said, those who are here need somewhere to live they can call their own. HOAs belong in condo complexes, not SFH neighborhoods. I live in California and if I'm going to pay $500,000 for a tract house, I bloody well will do as I please with it and expect my neighbors a) to be OK with that; and b) do the same, whatever the impact on my property values. Fair is fair.
This is absolutely correct. For some reason the iPod became trendy while it took Creative and other companies a while to catch up. For a while their prices were a fraction of the iPod for the same or more capacity. It wasn't until the American market woke up and noticed that the other products were the same thing that the prices of the others floated upward. All of them are made pretty much in the same way and by the same people (OK, in different factories manned by different people, but all by cheap overseas labor), which keeps the costs about the same. It's about the weird need to carry our music around everywhere and avoid human contact, not cheap overseas labor. That's why the profit margins are so high.
While I can acknowledge that it very well could be accidental, this Administration has a history of deviancy and obfuscation. They may well have "accidentally" left off HVAC and other non-controversial topics to mask their intention of eliminating evolutionary biology. It would not be an original ploy by any means and certainly not beyond the intelligence of the current Administration.
I think we in IT are still rare enough not to have to roll over when companies pull this kind of thing. If a company doesn't want to strike the clause, don't work for them; if enough of us do this, the clause won't be so popular. All they'll get are second-rate consultants.